Eliminate Hunger by 2025, Say UN Food Agency Officials

Food security and nutrition must be placed at the center of the international agenda for African development, officials of the United Nations food agencies have urged, adding that hunger must be eliminated by 2025.

"The world has reduced the number of hungered people we've been doing (statistics) since 1990 to date from more than 1 billion to 870 million, but we still have obstacles," said director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Jose Graziano Da Silva, at a press conference held by the FAO, the International Fund for Agricultural development (IFAD) and the World Food Program (WFP) during the Fifth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD V).